January 20, 2020

When You Come To The Fork In The Road, Take It

OK, who cares? In 2008 the Times editors backed their hometown honey Hillary over the young Barack Obama,which alienated a big part of their newsroom. In 2016 they may have experienced a similar dynamic by backing Hillary over the darling of young socialists everywhere, Bernie. So in this moment of tension and fraught decision making the Times sends out the punting team on third and long.

Politico:
The issue arose when Schiff (D-Calif.) sent a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) last week summarizing a trove of evidence from Lev Parnas, an indicted former associate of Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. In one section of the letter, Schiff claims that Parnas "continued to try to arrange a meeting with President Zelensky," citing a specific text message exchange where Parnas tells Giuliani: "trying to get us mr Z." The remainder of the exchange - which was attached to Schiff's letter - was redacted.

But an unredacted version of the exchange shows that several days later, Parnas sent Giuliani a word document that appears to show notes from an interview with Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, followed by a text message to Giuliani that states: "mr Z answers my brother." That suggests Parnas was referring to Zlochevsky not Zelensky.

American Oversight
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BREAKING: Two minutes before midnight, OMB released 192 pages of Ukraine-related records to American Oversight, including emails that have not been previously released. americanoversight.org/omb-releases-u…

It is amusing to hear the Senators being subjected to the same rules as third graders. They have to sit in their seats,no talking. They are only allowed water or milk. They have access to a candy drawer. They get a potty break when teacher (Mitch) says so. Ha!